intermomentary - Visualize the momentary and aggregate intersections between slowly moving circles.
Contents
Bugs
Setting the background to anything besides black confuses the intensity algorithm and will look terrible.
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 by J. Tarbell <complex@complexification.net>.
XScreenSaver port: Mike Kershaw <dragorn@kismetwireless.net>
Description
The Intersection Momentary is a fun visualization defining the relationships between objects with Casey
Reas, William Ngan, and Robert Hodgin. Commissioned for display at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
A surface filled with 100 medium to small sized circles. Each circle has a different size and direction,
but moves at the same slow rate. Display:
A. The instantaneous intersections of the circles.
B. The aggregate intersections of the circles.
The circles begin with a radius of 1 pixel and slowly increase to some arbitrary size. Circles are drawn
with small moving points along the perimeter. The intersections are rendered as glowing orbs. Glowing
orbs are rendered only when a perimeter point moves past the intersection point.
Environment
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the
RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW
The window ID to use with --root.
Name
intermomentary - Visualize the momentary and aggregate intersections between slowly moving circles.
Options
Intermomentary accepts the following options:
--num-discsdisccount(Default:85)
Number of slowly moving and growing discs to use. The more discs, the more CPU power.
--draw-delaydelayms(Default:30000)
Delay in ms between drawing cycles. More delay, slower (but smoother and less CPU intensive.)
art.
--max-ridersmaxrider(Default:40)
Maximum number of 'riders', single dots moving around the edge of the discs.
--max-radiusmaxradius(Default:100)
Maximum possible radius of a disc.
--fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
--visualvisual
Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number
(decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
--window
Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
--root Draw on the root window.
--window-idnumber
Draw on the specified window.
See Also
X(1), xscreensaver(1)
Synopsis
intermomentary [--display host:display.screen] [--visual visual] [--window] [--root] [--window-id number]
[--foreground color] [--background color] [--num-discs disccount] [--draw-delay delayms] [--max-riders
maxr] [--max-radius maxradius] [--fps]
